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Browser wars again

When you install Windows 7 you get a list of browsers and you just click on the one you want.
So now there is no way anyone can complain that Microsoft is using its monopoly to force Europeans to use Internet Exploder, is there?
But nooo, apparently someone can. This week a big cheese from the Mozorella Foundation claimed that the way Microsoft has proposed to get users to chose their browser was all wrong.
Mitchell Baker said that a "ballot screen" giving Windows 7 punters the option of setting up Firefox, or another browser instead, was not enough to level the playing field.

I never got an option to setup an alternative browser ...

Anyhow I do not see why MS should give the option?????? I think they are being far to nice to even let the idea go through and then some idiot goes and complains that it isnt good enuf ...

pfft
/rant

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.Albert Einstein

so does this also mean that Mac should not load Safari as the default browser? This is absolutely ridiculous. An operating system has to come with SOME browsers set as default, what would you expect it to be?

so does this also mean that Mac should not load Safari as the default browser? This is absolutely ridiculous. An operating system has to come with SOME browsers set as default, what would you expect it to be?

Hurrmmm...

Mosaic or Netscape Navigator???

Agreed - you have to have some type of browser. But none of the 7 installs I did prompted me for a Browser version.

I also have to point out that to say that anyone is "forced" to use any particular browser is a misuse of the word. If the user is not aware that there are other choices out there, it's their lack of knowledge which is hemming them in, in which case these other browsers should be on a quest to educate users, not to unreasonably accuse their competition.

I don't for a moment deny some of Microsoft's business practices have been rather shady, but this isn't one of them.

I have always thought that this focus on the default browser
or media player is missing the heart of the complaint against
Microsoft. The real problem is that, if they own the Operating
System, they can destroy any company that writes software
that runs on that OS

Once upon a time they had an OS. Others wrote word processors
games, web browsers. If the people who own the OS decide to expand
into other apps, goodbye other companies, not just because they
provide the default app for "free", but because the competitor's
app suddenly doesn't run well any more. Has anyone noticed how badly
Adobe's apps run lately? Are they really incompetent programmers,
or is it because they can't get access to undocumented APIs?

I don't use that many Adobe products but certainly their Acrobat reader I have always regarded as a hunk of crap, and it's not a recent occurrence. The first time I tried Foxit, I immediately deleted all traces of Adobe acrobat from my machines and they haven't seen me since.